Michelle Howard is a retired United States Navy officer who was the first female to become a four-star admiral. She accomplished several firsts through her career including being the first African-American woman to command a U.S. Navy ship, was the first admiral selected from the U.S. Naval Academy class for rank rear admiral. She was also the first African-American and... read full bio
Norman Ornstein is an American political scientist, author, and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is co-author of “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism”. Growing up, Ornstein was a child prodigy and graduated from high school at 14 and going on to graduate from college... read full bio
Mona Sutphen has previously served as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy under President Barack Obama. Sutphen has also previously been Managing Director at UBS AG, where she covered geopolitical risk and macro-policy trends and their impact on the global economy. She has also been a partner at Macro Advisory Partners LLP and has been an American... read full bio
David J. Hickton is an American director and founder of the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security and former United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. During his work as an attorney, Hickton had indictment with the Chinese military, Russian hackers, and cyber criminals. Hickton was born in Columbus, Ohio, and he earned his... read full bio
Lanny Davis is an American advisor, political operative, lawyer, consultant, lobbyist, author, and television commentator from Jersey City, New Jersey. Davis has previously earned both his B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. Davis began his career working as National Director of Youth Coalition for Muskie before going on to try to run for congress. He then later served three terms... read full bio
David Cutler is an economist who has been a senior health care advisor for the Obama Presidential Campaign, a member of council of economic advisors and national economic council for President Clinton, and a Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University. Cutler was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and he graduated from Harvard College, summa cum laude, with a degree in... read full bio
George W. Casey Jr. is an American retired four-star general who served as the 36th Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Casey was born in Sendai, Japan, during the time the Allied had occupation of Japan. His father, George W. Casey Sr., was also a general who served in the wars which led Casey Jr. to be a... read full bio
Leon Kaulaho Siu is best known for being the Foreign Minister for the Hawaiian Kingdom. After the United States admitted to wrongfully taking the Hawaiian Islands, Siu was a big part of setting out to reclaim their island as their own. Siu has served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Hawaii for several decades and has been heavily involved... read full bio
Michael Rose is a retired British Army general who has a Special Air Service Regiment commanding officer as well as a Commander UNPROFOR Bosnia during the Yugoslav Wars. Rose was born in British India and studied at Cheltenham college. St. Edmund Hall, Oxford and Sorbonne. After earning his B.A., Rose joined the Regular Army Coldstream Guards as second lieutenant before... read full bio
Kiron Skinner is an American former Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State. Skinner was born in Chicago, Illinois, and earned her A.A. from Sacramento City College where she won the Harry S. Truman Scholarship which led her to earn her B.A. in political science from Spelman College. She then went on to earn both her... read full bio
P.W. Singer is an American political scientist, an international relations scholar, and a specialist on modern warfare who is currently a strategist for the New America Foundation, and an editor for Popular Science. Singer has earned his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and also earned his A.B. from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Singer has... read full bio
James Elmer Mitchell is an American psychologist who is a former member of the United States Air Force, a former CIA interrogator, and author. Mitchell joined the Air Force and went on to be stationed in Alaska where he learned how to disarm unexploded ordnance. He then went on to work in Texas as a hostage negotiator and left the... read full bio
Howard Philip “Buck” McKeon is an American politician who has previously served as the Chair of the House Armed Services Committee, and has been Chairman and CEO of The McKeon Group. McKeon was born in Los Angeles, California, and he earned his B.S. in animal husbandry from Brigham Young University before going on begin a career in business. McKeon began... read full bio
Arvind Subramanian is an Indian economist who has previously been the 16th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. Subramanian was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, and he earned his B.A. in Economics from Delhi University before going on to earn his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and his M.Phil and D. Phil from the University... read full bio
Matt Schlapp is an American political activist and lobbyist who is currently the chairman of the American Conservative Union. Schlapp was born in Wichita, Kansas, and he is the son of Susan Schlapp who was a former city councilwoman. Schlapp earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and then went on to earn his master’s degree in... read full bio
Former acting White House chief of staff for President Donald Trump and former U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Michael "Mick" Mulvaney (R). Although he devoted all of his time to his chief of staff responsibilities from January 2019 to March 2020, Mulvaney held the position of formal director of the OMB from February 2017 until July 2020.... read full bio
A journalist and diplomat from the United States, Daniel Benjamin was chosen by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to serve as the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the Department of State from 2009 to 2012. At Dartmouth College, Benjamin served as the center's director for international understanding. He was elected president of the American Academy in Berlin, a transatlantic nonprofit organization... read full bio
Dr. Stephen Flynn is widely regarded as one of the most knowledgeable individuals in the field of critical infrastructure protection and homeland security. Flynn details the major man-made and natural perils that will almost certainly confront the United States in his seminal book, "The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation." He also provides a menu of actions that the... read full bio
Roy Neel has been at the center of some of the most amazing occurrences in the course of history and has assisted in the resolution of some of the most difficult situations that the country has faced over the past three decades. He was the Chief of Staff for Congressman, Senator, and Vice President Al Gore, and he also served... read full bio
Tony Coles oversaw significant programs to improve New York City's quality of life and economic health as Rudolph Giuliani's deputy mayor and advisor. Coles' world altered on 9/11 when he witnessed the WTC attack alongside the Mayor. Coles dealt minute-by-minute with New York City's aftermath. Coles was a crucial member of Giuliani's team for eight years, helping privatize public services, foster... read full bio
